Former Starke County Sheriff’s Department employee Adam Gray pleaded guilty to two charges in a plea hearing in La Porte County Circuit Court 2 with Judge Richard Stalbrink, Jr. presiding.
Adam Gray, 51, of Knox, was indicted on several charges in 2022 following a lengthy investigation by the Indiana State Police Criminal Investigation Division Lowell Post.
Indiana State Police say evidence and testimony were presented to a Grand Jury concerning missing evidence from the Starke County Sheriff’s Department.
Gray was indicted on four counts of official misconduct as a Level 6 Felony, two counts of theft as a Class A Misdemeanor, and dealing paraphernalia and dealing marijuana, both as Class A Misdemeanors.
In a plea hearing held Friday, May 5, Gray pleaded guilty to two counts of official misconduct as a Level 6 Felony.
If the judge accepts the plea agreement negotiated between Gray’s Attorney James Woods and Special Prosecutor Stanley Levco, Gray would serve nine months in the Starke County Jail with all of that sentence suspended with six months to be served on Starke County Community Corrections and three months on probation on each count. The sentences would be served concurrently.
A pre-sentence investigation report and a Community Corrections evaluation will need to be conducted prior to Gray’s sentencing hearing on June 9 at 9 a.m. CT in La Porte Circuit Court 2.
